HIPAA Compliance

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1996. Title II of HIPAA, the Administrative Simplification (AS) provisions, requires the establishment of national standards for electronic health care transactions and national identifiers for providers, health insurance plans, and employers.

The key benefit of creating a case management methodology is to multiply its effectiveness by replicating it across the organization's patient-facing departments, practices and functions. In this way, your organization can reduce costs, increase quality and streamline its operations.

This white paper shows how information availability solutions ensure the availability and accessibility of data and applications, regardless of planned or unplanned interruptions. They transform costly unproductive downtime into value producing uptime and help IT managers solve the challenges of automated patient care and compliance.

The IHE framework and process provides a model that can help address these challenges of inefficient care coordination, disconnected data silos, and proprietary, non-scalable and cost prohibitive integration strategies.

Information security has undergone a sea change in the past 10 years. Compliance mandates in the form of industry standards and Federal rules like NERC, FFIEC, HIPAA/HITECH and PCI-DSS are the new norm. To stay in compliance, IT teams need to be able to keep up with updatesand changes to existing mandates while also being prepared for new ones. To maximize efficiency, manage risk and reduce potential violations due to compliance failure, organizations need to implement security tools whose features support multiple specifications within and across different compliance frameworks.

Sybase PowerBuilder has remained throughout the years a bastion of application development productivity for a wide class of enterprise applications that combine database access with a highly productive graphical user interface (GUI).

Email encryption is fast becoming the must-have technology to achieve regulatory compliance, secure corporate assets, and protect privacy. Effective, affordable, and easy-to-use encryption was once unheard of. Now businesses can have it all.

The paper also provides an overview of the HITECH Act, which addresses the privacy and security concerns associated with the electronic transmission of health information, in part, through several provisions that strengthen the civil and criminal enforcement of the HIPAA rules.

Most organizations find managing risk and compliance a challenge - but the rewards for doing so well can be considerable. By putting the right processes, systems and controls in place, you can gain visibility into decisions taken all across the enterprise - and protect both corporate performance and reputation.

This white paper from Symantec™ Health provides a guide for IT departments as they examine their current image archiving strategy and explore new options. It summarizes challenges, existing approaches, and the benefits of cloudbased archiving approaches.

Many US companies find themselves acting like Wait-and-See, Inc. They interpret the switch from US Generally
Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to IFRS as a matter of compliance rather than an opportunity to become more globally competitive by improving key internal processes.

The increasing adoption of electronic health records greatly complicates the tasks of security and privacy requirements. In this webcast, *Trend Micro* and *Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center* discuss how to successfully navigate through the challenges associated with securing Web-based applications.

To meet evolving regulatory mandates, companies around the world are adopting International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), a set of methodologies and disclosure requirements for the preparation and presentation of financial statements. Yet making the transition to IFRS is not just a rote accounting exercise.

This white paper explains how a business rule management system can make business process automation easier to understand, maintain and manage. Compare BRMS with other business automation schemes, like traditonal software coding or standard business rule engines. Learn how the Welsh Assembly Government and a United States commercial lender have implemented business rules to make a difference in their business processes.

Find out how a robust configuration audit and control system can enable electronic submissions and signatures, and validate electronic data, in compliance with the FDA's mandatory submission of clinical trials records.

Find out whether your health company's network systems are well enough to pass an internal security checkup, or are running the risk of a much more invasive examination by federal regulators and plaintiff's lawyers.